The statement from a man who suffered at the hands of Tony Windsor:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/federal-election-2016/federal-election-2016-tony-windsor-accused-of-being-student-bully/news-story/9fb80222aa09a357f491ba903a723eee

"Tony Windsor whipped schoolboys’ buttocks with a riding crop and hit their knuckles with the back of a knife, at times until they bled, according to his fellow former students.

Tony Windsor is recontesting his old federal seat of New England. Picture: Craig Greenhill
As the independent candidate for New England steps up his campaign to re-enter federal parliament, six of his former school peers have broken their silence about his alleged behaviour at Tamworth’s Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School in north west NSW, where he had the nickname “Hood Windsor”.

Farrer had a culture, known as “SACK”, that encouraged older students to control younger students through physical punishment and intimidation, similar to conduct of which Mr Windsor is accused. Tamworth cattle and horse breeder Richard Bull, 61, wells up as he tells how Mr Windsor “terrorised” him during his first year of boarding school in 1967 when he was 11 years old.

“He made my life hell that first year at school,” Mr Bull told The Australian.

Mr Bull said he still had scars on his knuckles from when Mr Windsor allegedly slashed his fingers with a knife at the boarding room dinner table, after thumping his hands with it repeatedly."

Is Tony Windsor still the darling of the left?

the left are more concerned about a man who supposedly 40 years ago punched air. They give more air time to this than rape allegations, union corruption or someone like Winsdor who sold out on his electorate by forming a Government that would ensure debt for generations to come. With the left it is all about sides little to do with principle. That is why Turnbull is so dangerous. He undermined and backstabbed an elected PM and now wants people to 'trust' him. Why is isn't running for the Labour party beats me.

Shadow, do you think we should be concerned that nearly half a century ago Tony Windsor behaved in the violent and intimidating way that his school's culture encouraged?

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runner, the accusation that Tony Windsor "sold out his electorate" is baseless. He went with the side that he thought would give his electorate the best deal. Though some of his constituents regarded it a a sellout, many of those people changed their minds when they saw what Tony Abbott was like as PM.

The accusation that it "would ensure debt for generations to come" is extremely dubious, as debt rose faster under Abbott and Turnbull than under Gillard. But even if it were true, why do you think it would be a problem? How do you imagine this would make the people of New England worse off?

It wasn't Abbott's punching the air (or even his punching the wall next to someone's head) that the left are so concerned about, it's the policies Abbott tried to impose on Australia.

The rape allegations were given very little airtime because there was no evidence to support them. What do you think should happen when someone makes a false rape accusation?

As for union corruption, that was given plenty of airtime and there's now a bipartisan consensus to implement measures to stop it reoccurring, though a disagreement as to what should be done (Libs want to reinstate the ABCC, Labor want a Federal ICAC).

Tony Windsor has the liars fouling themselves in fear. Again.
Dragging up childhood misdemeanors from 60 years ago is about as low as it gets for the gutter soldiers. Hope he sues the lot of you.
Bye bye barnyard, you beetroot face fool.

Aidan,

As for dredging up the past, the comparisons are stark. Here, the accusations, of brutal physical abuse, against Tony Windsor are corroborated by several people, who have no political alignment, which in a court of law would be a slam dunk. Notably the left whinge media have not reported it. I believe that TW has "called in the lawyers." This is a gesture, as he wouldn't have a prayer. Similarly, the rape charge against Shorten by a labor cadet, was dismissed for lack of evidence, which is understandable since it was unreported at the time, as are the majority of sexual assaults, gets swept under the rug. Yet the accusations by a left whinge activist, with clear motivation, against Abbott of "punching the air" (not even slightly illegal) which supposedly occurred in a crowded student union without a single witness gets front page coverage.

The view that Tony Windsor sold out his electorate is based on the fact that TW as the elected representative of New England was expected to reflect the views of the electorate, which clearly had no desire to support the incompetent labor/green government.

Finally, there is no consensus as to stopping the illegal activities of the corrupt unions, as Shorten has given them an undertaking to block any oversight. PS, ICAC does not look into unions, only public corruption.

Shadow, are you working for Rupert? Every time I hit one of your crappy links I get an invite to cough up $4 or $8 for the Murdoch Gutter Press.
Catholic brothers and priests took great delight in not only buggery of children, but belting them with canes etc until they were black and blue. Some of the Christianity supported by the holier-than-thou hypocrites of today!

Paul,

A little rich considering that the greens were founded on buggery and have had one ex candidate arrested for kiddie porn.

Well we can wrap this post up as the two labor sycophants Tony Whinger and Rob Bullshot have been convincingly kicked to the kerb.

"Well we can wrap this post up as the two labor sycophants Tony Whinger and Rob Bullshot have been convincingly kicked to the kerb."

Lol!...and the govt did so well!

Snort!.....

Hi Poirot,

Well, a very good result for Labor, win or lose. The worse possible result for Turnbull, should he be pushed to form a minority, or at best a slim majority government with a hostile Senate. The red neck conservative commentators (Shy Channel) are this morning trying desperately to fuel Labor leadership speculation, a nonsense in my view. As you know I'm not a Labor supporter, although I'm very sympathetic to the cause. No mention of Abbott and other anti Turnbull Conservatives and a future leadership challenge to the hog tied liberal himself.

Hi paul,

A couple of moments stood out last night.

One was the CH7 panel (where I ended up after the quite stayed ABC coverage) surmising that Mal may not emerge to give a speech...and Alan Jones reacting to that by speaking into the camera to Mal as if he was trying to coax a jumper down from a window ledge...Lol!

The other was Turnbull's entirely graceless and petulant speech when he did emerge.

It was almost embarrassing in its churlishness.

Oh..and Bolt's quick-off-the-mark column denouncing Turnbull - excerpts:

"MALCOLM Turnbull has lost everything except his job as Prime Minister — and that could be next.

I doubt he’ll last to the next election. Yes, the Coalition has won the election, but by a disastrously small margin that leaves it almost powerless, Turnbull humiliated and the country damned."

"For Turnbull, this will be almost as devastating as losing the election: he will be PM with almost no authority, no mandate and no popularity."

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_turnbulls_pathetic_win_leaves_him_destroyed/

Both Turnbull and Shorten are a sign of the times, egocentric and self promoting, always in your face.

Although Shorten has gone considerably further to demonstrate the lying, step on your face, anything goes win at any cost self interest that has become so common as to be a feature of Australian culture. That and envious interference in your neighbour's back yard.

Also a sign of the times was the media's frivolous treatment of the election campaign. The refusal to properly challenge the unsupportable claims and even outright lies, whoppers such as the claim that universal health care was threatened if one side was elected. That makes a mockery of the media's claims to special treatment where they transgress against individual privacy, for example.

The standards have dropped and the once despised tabloid hacks rule. Only to be expected where the politicians have been such a sorry lot of self-entitled, self-indulgent squibs who cannot be trusted to protect freedom of speech.

Good to see Tony Windsor get the Big A. A self-interested clown who proved himself to be treacherous to those who elected him before.

I find it truly surprising that of the votes counted
the Coalition thus far has 65 seats and Labor has 67
with 13 seats remaining in doubt. We were told that
it would be a close election- but few could have
predicted this result.

What happens now?

The following link explains the possibilities:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-03/election-result-what-happens-now/7564250

Given the result between Barnyard Joyce and Tony Windsor, one must assume the outcome was not based on any thing to do with intelligence. Barnyards win, could have been the icing on the cake for Malcolm's miserable night. I must say Barnyard is good value in the parliament, a great sight act, as he regularly sticks his foot in his mouth, for all to see,